Eat The Financial Elephant

Working toward financial independence while building our dream life - "one bite at a time".

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Financial Elephant Around the Web: The White Coat Investor

Posted on March 25, 2015 | By Elephant Eater | 2 comments

Today is a very exciting day for the Elephant Eaters. We started this blog last May with three big objectives. We wanted to share what we have done well, mistakes we have made, and what we continue to learn to help others to use their finances to create a better way of life. We wanted to […]

DIY Investing Resource #3: The Intelligent Asset Allocator

Posted on March 19, 2015 | By Elephant Eater | 5 comments

We have previously featured JLCollin’s “Stock Series” and John Bogle’s “Little Book of Common Sense Investing” to introduce the concepts of low-cost, passive index investing. Our third resource to help DIY investors get started is William Bernstein’s The Intelligent Asset Allocator: How to Build Your Portfolio to Maximize Returns and Minimize Risk. Bernstein is a […]

Planning Our 21st Century Retirement

Posted on January 1, 2015 | By Elephant Eater | 4 comments

Wiki defines retirement as “the point where a person stops employment completely.” The link explains that retirement is a relatively new idea in society, introduced in Germany in 1889. Prior to this, lifespan for most was short and there was no social system to assist people if they stopped working. People simply worked until they […]